Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has backed Andreas Pereira to learn from his mistake which gifted Burnley a goal against Manchester United.

The Brazilian was handed his first Premier League start under the Norwegian but it was a mistake from the midfielder as he was caught in possession in the second half that led to Ashley Barnes' goal for Burnley.

United fought back to salvage a point thanks to goals from Paul Pogba and Victor Lindelof, after Chris Wood had put Burnley 2-0 up, but Pereira was forced to watch the comeback on the bench after he was brought off for Jesse Lingard.

Despite the disappointment in dropping two points, Solskjaer was sure to back Pereira and insisted it would act as a learning curve for the 23-year-old.

"Yes, a learning process every game you play is," Solskjaer told MUTV.

"It is for me as well learning about the players, when we go one down and then we went two down but still came back to get a point, Andreas will be better off for having this experience, no doubt about that."

Despite being frustrated by United's slow start the interim manager was impressed by the fight shown by his players to earn at point.

"We never get up that’s the DNA here, we're disappointed we didn’t get the three points but happy with the reaction after going 2-0 down," Solskjaer said.

"We got a point and we need to learn from this. We have to be able to handle not winning games too, on to Leicester now."